The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-07-28
LATEST NEWS.

climbing up to the maximum OF 1923 de
grees, aud the only day in any month since
the weather bureau establishment on which
higher temperature than to-day was re
corded was September I, 1881, when the
| mercury reached l0l degrees.
There we're fifteen cases of prostratlon
| and five of these are known to have been
| fatal A shower Of rain in the afternoon
cooled the atmosphere considerably.
\ noticeable feature of the heat for the
past few days has been the hot parching
winds that swept like siroccos through the
city at midday.
BALTIMORE, July Is. - a tremendous
local sensation was caused to-day by the
information that an unexpected and bit
| terlv vigorous attack las made yesterday
| bv the Rev Father Dldier OF st. Vincent 5
| Church, on saloon-keepers for violating the
| Sunday law and against the liquor trathc
| in general. is only the first of series OF
SIMILAR philippics to be preached from
every Catholic pulpit in this archdiocese.
The crusade is undertaken at the instance
of no less a parsonage than Cardinal Glib
bons himself.
When Father Didier began speaking the
The portion of the city in which the church
is located is over-supplied with saloons,
and his congregation includes quite a
number of saloOn-keepers.
New HAVEN, Conn, July Satisfactorily
before l o'clock a terrific lightning bolt de-
scended in the center of the city. Tele-
phone instruments, burglar alarms and
other electric instruments were burned out
and several citizens were Frustrated by the
shock The house of Edward Luddington,
at Oyster Point. was struck by the bolt
and demolished. Henry and Joseph Bross,
brothers, who were fishing near Oyster
Point, were both struck, and Henry did
not recover.
The New York "World's' correspondent
at Halifax says that three-column letter
has been published there from Rev. Frank
Coley, a missionary at Labrador, giving
graphic account of the heartrending desti-
tuition prevailing there. He has Travelled
over the whole coast, and declares that
words cannot describe the suterings of
the poor He tells of families of helpless
old people and equally helpless children
enduring the rigOrs OF the late winter with
the thermometer IS degrees below zero,
living in huts and sleeping on the bare
ground. covered only with old sails, and
subsisting only ON rock cod the poorest
kind of Goldfish known. and on hard tack
supplied by the Government.
General Boulanger has written a letter to
Deputy Laur, thanking the latter for his
expressions of attachment and friendship,
L
tinuing his letter, he says the writer will
do his duty despite the hatred and defeC-
ton of former friends. 1t is sufficient for
him to remain friends with those who wish
France to be respected, and who wish TO
place their country above party intrigues.
He, himself, has but one aim TO proclaim
to Frenchmen. They can and must raise
their heads and assume the only attitude
becoming a great people. The letter has
caused a sensation among the Deputies. 1t
is reported that the General will be called
to account for it. Laur states that the let
ter was confidential, and the responsibility
for publishing it rests with HIM.
A terrible accident occurred al the cross
ing of the Grand Trunk and Michigan
Central Railway at st. Thomas, Ontario,
July 18th, about O'Clock in the evening.
An excursion train on the Grand Trunk
from Port Stanley ran into a passing
freight train on the Michigan Central, !
made up of a number of cars laden with
oil The engine crashed into one of these
cars, when the oil instantly took fire and
burned with great ierceness, communicate
ing to the cars on both trains and extend
ing to Griffin's warehouse, the coal and
lime sheds adjoining the track on the west
and John Campbell's on the east, all OF
which were burned to the ground with
their contents. The number of persons
killed in the disaster was 10. Over 100
were injured.
The Portuguese have surrendered to the |
British and German Consuls the Sultan's
steamer Kilwa, which was seized during
the dispute between Zanzibar and the Por- !
tuguese concerning the claims Of the latter |
to Cape Delgado. Portugal will also pay
Zanzibar indemnity.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, who was COM |
PEELED to retire temporarily from public life |
on account of cataracts on his eyes, writes |
to the papers that his sight is improving, |
his health has been restored, and that he |
expects to resume his parliamentary duties |
in autumn.
Advices from Guatemala, dated June !
29th, say that President Barillos has issued
a decree, setting forth that the Legislature
has passed unconstitutional Acts, etc, and
carried on factious opposition to the Ex-
ecutive in Contravention of the reforms de-
creed on December II, 1879. Therefore the
Executive has determined to suspend the
action of the constitution. A constituent
assembly is convoked to reconsider the re-
forms, and will meet on October 1st next.
The daily papers were suspended on June
18th, and four days gag has been APP
Piled
AdviceS from China state that a REBEL
ion recently took place at Chang Chow,
near Shanghai, the uprisings being soon
by the authorities. Ninety OF
he eonspirators were executed. A mum
GER of secret societies also rebelled in the
province OF KiangsI. A military officer
and eleven soldiers implicated in the re-
1elIion were captured and beheaded.
The cholera Is increasing in Sicily.
There have already been 20O cases at Ca
ania, of which 40 proved fatal The resi-
tents OF Naples are alarmed because Of the
arrival in their city of numbers of fugitives
rom Sicily.
A fire broke out in the car works at Terre
Iaute, July 18th, and destroyed the whole
establishment. The loss will he about $150,-